News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-03
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pared 1850 bushels of apples thi
winter, besides attending to her house
hold work.
The New York Star expresses th,
opinion that Speaker Carlisle would
have been made Secretary of the
Treasury if he would have taken thu
place.
A 15-years-old lad at Decatur, Ind.
got up in his sleep one night recently
and walked to his brothers, Is mile:
distant, where he was awakened Will,
| trying to open the barn door
A Washington correspondent ha:
learned that if Mr.. Cleveland cannot
be renominated the whole influence O.
the administration will be thrown fol
Postmaster General Villas.
1t is said that the resignation oil
Commissioner Of Patents Montgomery
is direct result of the annoying and
persistent pressure of place seekers
These cormorants have fairly driven
him out of office.
Why does not the Democratic House
take up and pass the Senate bill re.
pealing the Tenure of Office act? Dc
the Democrats in that body hesitate
because they have suspicion that
they may desire the protection of that
law after March 4, 1889?
The Mutual life insurance company
has paid its policy holders during the
A years of its existence over S243-
100000. 1t has received from them
in the shape of premiums $285, 761,-
1856, and holds a great family fund to
meet future claims amounting to STA,
181, 1868.
Male voice choirs are rapidly super
ceding mixed choirs in Brooklyn.
There are now nearly twenty in the
city, and additions are being made to
the number every year, the churches
doing away with high priced profess
sional singers.
The Troy Times vigorously oppos-
es the Municipal Suffrage bill in New
York on the ground that the attempt
to give women the ballot in this way
is unconstitutional, the constitution
having taken full cognizance of the
suffrage question, and defining voters
as finale citizens of the age of q
years"
Minneapolis, Mimi, is making
great effort to secure the location of
the State Capitol there. Twenty
acres of land and 100000 capt.
tol building free are offered as an in
ducement to the State to make it the
seat of government. Jealousy of St.
Paul, its neighbor and rival, causes
this remarkable bid.
A balloon of colossal dimensions,
and said to be capable of being guild
ed at will, has been for some time in
course of construction at Berlin. The
balloon is 500 feet in length and so
FEET in diameter. The total weight is
about $4,000 pounds, the envelope
and netting alone weighing 10000
pounds. The propelling machinery
consists of two steam engines of so
horse power each, and the entire cost
S estimated at $4,000.
On one of the day coaches on the
Wabash train due in Toledo, O., on
tuesday morning of last week, was
by an explosion of the hot
water heater while the train was en-
,ering Sidney Station, ILL.,, at mid
hight. AT the time the Car was filled
With sleeping passengers, who were
brown in confusion about the floor. |
some were seriously hurt by broken
glass and pieces of iron and wood,
'ut no one received injuries that are
likely to prove fatal. Almost before
he train could be stopped and the
rescued from their predic-
Iment, the car caught fire from the
amps which had been shattered and
rom the fire under the heater, and
vas almost instantly destroyed. Time
nough was afforded, however, for the
assengers to gather their scattered
fleets and escape. Had the train
cen going at the usual high rate of
peed there might have been great
)ss of life.